April Yaris sales down big time

[Zaphod]

Originally Posted by thebarber

im going to have to disagree with you

for the last decade my parents' cars have always run out of time before mileage. theyre older and don't travel that much anymore. my dad is retired and my mom works in-town.

even i have to admit that i don't put on NEAR the mileage i used to when i was single and drove all the time just for fun. our aveo is past its 3yr old mark and only has about 50000kms on it. (so 5/6 done the warranty mileage). yaris is at 54000km and will be three years old at the end of july....but its made several trips from the east coast and back (~3000km round trip)

with an aging population and a down-turned economy, i think you'll see people not commuting 50 miles to and from work or driving just for the sake of driving

like i said before, id rock a car because it had longer warranty, but my priorities are different than that of an 18yr old

But if it's only covering the drive train ...

I don't know, I've just never had to rebuild an engine, transmissions are a different story though but that's only happened to me when on one car at 150,000 miles (wrangler manual clutch was abused with off road driving), another at 200,000 miles (pinto manual), and finally another at 230,000 miles (maverick auto). Heck, the 75 Mercury approached near 400,000 miles without a failure to either of them. That poor beast of burden was good for at least 10 round trips to Florida pulling a trailer.

Things that went wrong, and I was no stranger to fixing them: ball joints, shocks, cylinders, pads, rotors, drums, compressors, alternators, radiators, leaf and coil springs, shocks, bearings, etc ...

I do expect the Yaris to be the most reliable car I've owned to date, and so far the build quality just impresses me to no end. JMO, but the 100,000 mile marker on drive train components just doesn't impress me at all as I just haven't had a drive train component go out on me within 100,000 miles on any car I've owned lemon (Maverick) or otherwise.